Contentions Quotes
16 quotes by 15 authors
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The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that we may be…
— C.S. Lewis
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In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during many ages afforded…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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The natural sciences are sometimes said to have no concern with values, nor to seek morality and goodness, and therefore belong to an inferior order…
— Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
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There are still to be found , or designing men, who stand ready to advocate the paradox of perpetual peace between the states, though dismembered…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Friendship is one of the grand fundamental principles of “Mormonismâ€; [it is designed] to revolutionize and civilize the world, and cause wars and contentions to…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions
— Edward Coke
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Defendants' essential contention is that bans on same-sex marriage promote the welfare of children, by encouraging good parenting in stable opposite-sex families.... Defendants have presented…
— Stephen Reinhardt
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If such love obtained in the world today as the Lord intended that it should, love of God and love of fellow men, there would…
— George F. Richards
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Religions are tough. Either they make no contentions which are subject to disproof or they quickly redesign doctrine after disproof. ... near the core of…
— Carl Sagan
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I regret exceedingly that the disputes between the protestants and Roman Catholics should be carried to the serious alarming height mentioned in your letters. Religious…
— George Washington
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There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
— Benjamin Whichcote
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Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.
— Walter Scott
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But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.
— Homer
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Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted…
— Felix Adler
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I dont want to pull the feel sorry for me card i Dont want to pull the I need you card I Don't Want to…
— Nathan T
Who Wrote These Contentions Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 16 Contentions Quotes as follows: